Dr. Blatt and others say that harsh parental standards are a frequent source of neurotic perfectionism.

The board applies harsher standards to videos, knowing that children more easily evade the age restrictions with them.

The Spetsnaz have created a fierce reputation as one of the best special forces in the world today due to the very harsh standards of their training.

"I don't think that's a harsh standard," he said.

Now, expensive as it is, we hold up events and invitations to the harsh standard of whether they are "sitterworthy."

This became particularly savage from the 1650s, with all sides falling to extraordinary levels of barbarity, even by the harsh standards of the time.

But the Costeaus today are an aloof subculture of colonial society-renegades living by their own harsh standards.

It is a harsh standard to say that an employee should do something about being paid too much.

Most recently, human rights and democracy activists have been subjected to a new round of repression that is ferocious even by China's harsh standards.

He made his own judgments, so it's possible they were considered by harsher standards.